A year amongst the Persians; impressions as to the life, character, and thought of the people of Persia, received during twelve month's residence in that country in the years 1887-8

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LibriVox recording of A year amongst the Persians; impressions as to the life, character, and thought of the people of Persia, received during twelve month's residence in that country in the years 1887-8, by Edward Granville Browne. Edward Granville Browne (1862 – 1926), born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and books of academic value, mainly in the areas of history and literature. His works are respected for their scholarship, uniqueness, and style. He published in areas which few other Western scholars had explored to any sufficient degree. He used a language and style that showed high respect for everybody, even toward those he personally did not view in positive light. In A Year Amongst the Persians (1893) he wrote a sympathetic portrayal of a Persian society which few Westerners had ever seen, including a frank account of the effects of opium. It did not attract the attention it deserved at the time of its initial publication, but after his death in 1926 it was reprinted and became a classic in English travel literature. A Year Amongst the Persians includes moving accounts of the Bahá’í community in Iran…

Directors & creators

Edward Granville Browne

Subjects

audiobook; librivox; travel; Iran; Persia; Persian; Istanbul; Trebizonde; Erzeroum; Tabriz; Zanjan; Qazvin; Tehran; Shah 'Abdu'l-'Azim; Qom; Kashan; Esfahan; Shiraz; Yazd; Kerman; Barfurush; Shaykh Tabarsi; philology; religion; philosophy; metaphysics; apologetics; Bahá'í; Bahai; Bábí; Babism; Shiism; Shaykhís; Shaykhism; Súfís; Sufism; Nimatullahi; Zoroastrians; Zoroastrianism; Mulla Sadra; Qurratu'l-'Ayn; poetry; fire temples; mysticism; magic; telekinesis; supernatural; ghouls; ifrits; nasnas; pa-lis; opium; hashish; drug addiction

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